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Traffic

The traffic is very convenient in Panzhihua. Chengdu-Kunming Railroad, National Road 108# and Ninghua Road, the Provincial Road, run through its whole area. nowadays, a fast radioactive traffic net has preliminarily formed, which takes urban area as the center, national and provincial roads as base and highways in both the city and villages as principal part, joining with districts and counties aroud.  further more, Panzhihua Airport, the important national project, was open to navigation in Dec. 2003. in addition, Panzhihua-Xichang Superhighway, which started to be built on Nov. 16th, 2003, will be connect with Chengdu-Yaan Superhighway.

Located between Chengdu and Kunming,  Panzhihua is the nearest place to South China and ports along the edge amd coast of Southeast Asia. Enjoying the positional superiority both inside and outside,  it possesses unique condition of tourist distributing center among those scenic spots in southwest Sichan and northwest Guizhou. besides, it provides with the best and fastest tourist passage to Lugu Lake and Lijiang.  

823 km away from Chengdu, Panzhihua is  accessable by taking  train of Chengdu-Kunming Line for 14 hours or bus via Xichang or plane to Xichang, where change train or bus to arrive. it is 230 km away from Xichang, which costs about 7 hours ride and the road conditions is not very good. Also, Panzhihua is one of the two starting points from Sichuan to Luguhu.